The economic realities in the south precluded the development of a strong abolitionist base, while the lack of slavery among the industrialized north, neither supported nor abhorred the abolitionist cause. By 1835, William Lloyd Garrison had established The Liberator as the nation’s most militant abolitionist newspaper. Over the next 30 years, the north and the south would try to find ways to coexist with two different economic systems and a growing abolitionist movement. Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church – Terre Haute, Indiana Levi Coffin House – Fountain City, Indiana Frederick Douglass National Historic Site – Washington D.C. Eleutherian College – Lancaster, Indiana Harpers Ferry National Historical Park – West Virginia Little Jerusalem AME Church – Cornwells Heights-Eddington, Pennsylvania William C. Nell House – Boston, Massachusetts Harriet Beecher Stowe House – Brunswick, Maine Liberty Farm – Worcester, Massachusetts Mount Zion United Methodist Church-Washington, D.C. White Horse Farm-Phoenixville, Pennsylvania Civil war and emancipation The American Civil War is often seen as a war between white men over the fate of the black man. From the beginning, the African-American peoples played a significant role in the war. As early as July 1861, three months after Fort Sumter, the United States Congress passed the first Confiscation Act, granting freedom to any slave who had been used to support the Confederate war efforts, once they were behind Union Lines. Quickly General Sherman employed this new manpower in the construction of Union facilities from which to prosecute the war. With the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, the First Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery and All Negro unit was founded by General B.F. Butler. The War Department quickly authorized the enlistment of Negro soldier with the founding of the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth and Fifty-Fifth Infantry Regiments. By the end of the war, there were over 150 all-Negro regiments. On September 29, 1864, the Third Division of the Eighteenth Corp of the Army of the James, moved forward to take the New Market Heights outside Richmond, Virginia. The key role in this advance was given to the ‘all-Negro’ division. By the end of the day, the Union Army would stand on the heights overlooking the city of Richmond with a loss of 584 men and 10 Congressional Medal honorees now in their ranks. This action marked the beginning of the dissolution of the Confederate Government and the end of the war the following April. Boston African American